Has anyone seen any effort afoot to make a drag-N-drop between a GUI like the one in MiddleGen and an ActionForm so that you can build your pages using point and click and have all the code generation for the action classes, DTOs/VOs, EJBs/DAOs done behind the scenes xdoclet style. I know the propriatary nature of some databases and app servers makes this a little difficult but it looks like a lot of pieces for this are starting to fall in place. Especially with the new commons-beanutils with features such as RowSetDynaClass (as recently mentioned by Craig)
I don't mind coding all this stuff by hand... Not!... and don't mind trying out various popular OR mapping tools and code generators (free ones that is). But it seems like someone might be looking at assembling into a single tool many of the loosely coupled projects not only at Apache but also sourceforge. I am looking forward to see what the SUN Faces product will do and how Struts and JSTL relates to or is incorporated into that but I do not know easy it will be to map database fields to a "face". But for my next scheduled development with Stuts 1.1 and the new commons code, this looks like still a lot of hand coding or hand configuring of code generators... I suppose I'll need to ask each of the current tool's user lists to see if they are planning to support some of the new features and integration with Struts. :) But I wanted poll the great Struts masses first :) -Tony --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
